associative

Meaning

Adjective

• Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite.
• Such that, for any operands $a,\; b$ and $c$, $(a\; *\; b)\; *\; c\; =\; a\; *\; (b\; *\; c)$; whose multiplication operation is associative.
• Addressable by a key more complex than an integer index.

Related

Opposite words

• antiassociative

Narrower meaning words

• left-associative
• right-associative

Origin

• From associate + -ive.